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Blogger
Blogger makes it easy for teachers and students to share work, class notes, and pictures online. And with new access controls, educators can even make private blogs for their classes’ eyes only.
As a teacher, Blogger can help you stay connected to your students, their parents, and the rest of the school. With Blogger you can update parents about their children's progress and keep them posted on upcoming events; publish a class or school newsletter; share photos and student work; post course documents, projects and results; and easily assign collaborative group projects online with an easy way to track students’ progress.
Students can use Blogger to communicate ideas, photos and class notes, improve their writing skills, and even jump right into web publishing without having to learn HTML. Free blogs, accessible from any computer that’s connected to the Internet, can help students easily create hubs for collecting information for both long and short-term projects; store information as unpublished drafts; collect feedback on their work from classmates, teachers and parents; and take on collaborative projects where multiple students can work and comment.
Even school sports teams, dance clubs and other extracurricular school groups can use Blogger to communicate with parents about upcoming events; share group calendars; and offer event highlights and pictures.
Learn more about Blogger
Additional educational blogging resources:
Teaching Today – Using Blogs to Integrate Technology in the Classroom
eMints Teaching Tips: Using Online Journals and Blogs
My eCoach – Classroom Blogs
Found or developed a lesson using Blogger? Tell us about it!
Teachers speak out
 In all of my graduate courses that I teach, my students (who are teachers, too) have to keep
a journal of their learning experiences in my courses. Each student sets up a blog at blogger.com to
keep this journal. These particular blogs weren't interactive, so comments weren't posted. This assignment has helped the students learn about the importance of writing to an audience in addition to giving them a better understanding of blogging. Blogs give students the opportunity to reflect, to vent and most of all to share their experiences. Blogger’s a great tool.
Dr. Sheila Offman Gersch, New York City Public Schools |
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